Yang Zhen didn't care too much about the funds. Everyone is a family. Future work cannot be carried out without the support of local work, as long as you keep enough funds yourself. Too much, it's tantamount to asking yourself for trouble. It is also reasonable to turn it in.

But the military factory and weapons and equipment, Yang Zhen must firmly control it in his own hands, which is what Yang Zhen must insist on. The ammunition produced in a battle can be piled up into a mountain, and the weapons and equipment required for the more than 100,000 troops after the expansion are even more astronomical. If there is no strong logistical support, how can this battle be fought?

Yang Zhen agreed happily, and exceeded the number proposed by the two, which made the commander-in-chief and Li Yanlu slightly stunned. The two of them, especially Yang Zhen, knew Yang Zhen quite well, and they had already been the commander-in-chief of bargaining with him, but no one expected that Yang Zhen not only agreed so happily, but also overfulfilled his own requirements.

Yang Zhen's surprisingly refreshing not only made the commander-in-chief extremely satisfied, but also aroused the favor of the director of the Northeast Working Committee who met for the first time. In the process of setting up the production and construction corps, this director can be said to have made great efforts. From overall planning to immigration, he almost did it all by himself. This is not unrelated to the good impression left by Yang Zhen when he first met.

People in the war years were far less procrastinating than later generations, and they didn't have to study everything twice. For something like this, just the three of them made up their minds. Yang Zhen agreed happily, and the commander-in-chief and Li Yanlu did not push back. Moreover, what Yang Zhen said is also the truth.

After Jiangbei agreed to give a loan of 20 million rubles, Yang Zhen, who had already solved the problem of funds for the establishment of various arsenals, left behind the Wutonghe gold mine, which has the largest gold output in the entire Sanjiang Province, in addition to supplementing the capital consumption of the military region and carrying out labor reform for Japanese prisoners of war and hardcore traitors, part of the reason was to secretly provide some funds for the central government.

Looking at the cheerful Yang Zhen, the commander-in-chief smiled and said: "This time Jiangbei can agree to be so happy, which is directly related to your outstanding performance in this battle. I heard Ivanov, political commissar of the Far Eastern Military District, say that after the documentary film shot by the camera team they sent was sent to Moscow for screening, even Comrade Stalin was shocked and praised you for your greatness. This time, the agreement was reached so happily because of the order of Comrade Stalin himself. And the Jiangbei side has already begun to implement it. ”

"However, the commander of the Far Eastern Military District of the Soviet Army, General Abanasek, once mentioned to me that the General Staff of the Red Army wanted us to provide some of the new Japanese tanks and various new artillery guns captured in the war against Japan, and they wanted to study them as samples.

"As a token of appreciation, they offered to provide us with twenty-four of the Polish Army's newest 7TP tanks that they had intended to keep for free. In addition, the Far Eastern Military District also provided us with a number of artillery and armored instructors free of charge in their personal capacity. And willing to train thirty pilots for us in the aviation of the Far Eastern Military District. ”

Speaking of this, the commander-in-chief said with some emotion: "And this batch of tanks and some weapons and ammunition have been transported to Jiangbei, and I have seen it with my own eyes when I return." You don't know, when I saw this batch of weapons and ammunition piled up at the location of the headquarters of the Far Eastern Military District of the Soviet Army, which we urgently needed during the campaign, I had a feeling that it had been a while since these things were shipped. ”

"From this point, it can be seen that they have already agreed to the idea we put forward at the beginning. The reason why they didn't nod their heads to agree to our deal before is probably to wait to see what the outcome of our battle will be, and then come up with a deal with us. If you win, everyone will be happy. If we had lost this battle, I am afraid that there would not have been such a thing at all. Our big brother is realistic, isn't it? ”

Regarding the commander-in-chief's emotion, Yang Zhen did not have the slightest surprise. He had long understood the character of the Soviets, so he didn't feel any surprises at the moment. In Yang Zhen's view, it is still the sentence in the Internationale: "There has never been a savior." ”

So for the last sentence of the commander-in-chief, Yang Zhen smiled slightly and said: "The commander-in-chief has nothing, dignity has never been without a price, and everything has to be fought for by oneself by strength." I still say the same thing, you don't have the corresponding strength, even if you don't have anyone to give you food. If you hit it, someone will naturally send it to your door. ”

"Because you play well, you can bring them a lot of benefits. If you don't play well and can't bring them the benefits they want, no one will take care of you. Jiangbei will seize the materials and equipment that are no longer useful to them, almost equal to scrap iron, to expand our strength and ensure the security of their eastern borders. ”

"In this way, they can free up hundreds of thousands of troops that were originally used to defend against the Kwantung Army, and a large number of technical equipment such as artillery, aircraft, and tanks for future European theaters. Europe is now playing extremely lively, and for Jiangbei, they are under much more pressure than us. ”

"If we win, we can contain hundreds of thousands of Kwantung Army from entering the pass, and we can also avoid the pressure and threat of the Kwantung Army on its eastern border. This batch of weapons and ammunition can be just the icing on the cake for us. Having lost, they could not have given the Japanese an excuse to attack them, especially as the threat to the west became increasingly severe. "Whether it was out of the need to eliminate the world's first socialist regime or on the plundering of the rich mineral and agricultural resources of the Soviet Union, the eastward advance of the German army was inevitable. I bet that within two years, after the Anglo-French were eliminated and their worries were relieved, the Germans would surely advance eastward. ”

I can see this trend, but Stalin's shrewdness may not be invisible. They picked us up and held the eastern front so that he could deal with all his might in the western part of the country, against the German army. Fighting on two fronts is not a pleasant thing for any country. What's more, it is still an army like the Japanese army, which is definitely not weak in combat effectiveness. ”

"So, commander-in-chief, don't sigh either. The better we fight, the more supplies we get. But there is one thing I hope the Northeast Bureau can be mentally prepared. First, on the day when the Soviet-German war really broke out, the Soviet Union was bound to cut off the channels for the import of materials for our army to meet its own needs. ”

"Another point is that we must be vigilant, once Jiangbei feels that the development of our army's power will bring even the slightest threat to it, it will cut off the supply of materials to our army. However, this is unlikely to be the case until the war in Europe has completely subsided. At least for the time being, our relationship with Jiangbei is one of two benefits and two harms. ”

"As for Jiangbei's request for our army to provide the latest captured Japanese weapons, it can be agreed. I drew one Type 99 heavy mountain gun and one Type 95 75-mm field gun from the captured Japanese equipment. Two Type 91 105-mm field guns, together with the corresponding ammunition, were transferred to Jiangbei. In addition, four of the captured Japanese army's latest Type 97 tanks were transferred to Jiangbei. ”

"But there is one thing, they will provide our army with 10,000 tons of gasoline and diesel until at least the middle of next year. 2,000 tons of aviation fuel, as well as necessary aircraft spare parts, spare engines. In addition to these, I want four hundred trucks. They don't have to take out a loan for these things, and we can buy them in cash at the international exchange rate and pay them in yen. ”

Although Yang Zhen looked calm on the surface, he was actually slightly excited in his heart. Although this batch of munitions and materials is Polish second-hand equipment captured by the Soviet army, it is now a solution to its urgent needs. With the current expansion of the troops, the number of weapons in the stock simply cannot meet the needs.

Infantry weapons can only meet half of the needs, especially light and heavy machine guns with large gaps. Although the arsenal has begun to produce small batches and switch to the Japanese-style 77-caliber PK general-purpose machine gun, no one thought that the quality of the machine gun was very good, but the problem was in the Japanese-style ammunition.

The Japanese bullet casing was relatively soft, and it simply could not withstand the chamber pressure of this machine gun. In the case of a high rate of fire, the shells generally fragmented. If it is improved according to the performance of the bullet, the rate of fire will be reduced to a situation that Yang Zhen is simply unacceptable. If this rate of fire is this, what kind of general-purpose machine guns can be produced by yourself, and you can directly produce crooked light machine guns and Type 92 heavy machine guns.

To increase the rate of fire, in addition to reproducing the bullets yourself. It is like a Japanese light and heavy machine gun, and a mechanism is added to the machine gun to lubricate the bullet when firing. In this way, all the Qiqi bullets in the stock cannot be used, not to mention, and a fuel tank must be added, which makes it difficult for Yang Zhen to accept.

In desperation, Yang Zhen could only order the military factory to change the 200 PK general-purpose machine guns that had been produced back to the original Jiangbei standard 7.62 mm bullets. Under the premise that the ammunition produced now is still of Japanese-style six-five, seven-seven calibers, these machine guns can only be used as a reserve for the first time.

Unable to effectively solve the contradiction between chamber pressure and bullets, the arsenal could only continue to produce the Japanese-style Type 96 light machine gun that was imitated by reverse mapping and mapping. As for the heavy machine guns, due to the limitations of steel, production has been hovering within the number of five units per month. Looking at these "old-fashioned" weapons produced with excellent nickel-chromium alloy steel, Yang Zhen himself felt distressed.

These second-hand weapons provided by Jiangbei can be used to replace the miscellaneous caliber rifles in the troops. It will be handed over to the Production and Construction Corps as a reserve. Even the company itself can re-establish some strategic reserves for stocks that are already largely empty. It is also possible to at least first adjust the caliber of the weapons used by the main forces to three calibers: six-five, seven-seven, and seven-nine.

This expansion of the army is due to the fact that the number of troops has almost quadrupled from the original base. In order to make up for the shortage of equipment, Yang Zhen not only sent all the Italian-made rifles that were originally used for training, but even issued all the Italian rifles with a caliber of up to four calibers that Ma Chunsheng had seized from the arms warehouse, not counting the largest number.

In terms of caliber, only the largest number of 79-caliber rifles such as the Czech and Liao 13 rifles can be mixed with Japanese rifles. The rifles of the first column were replaced with 79 calibers, and the second column was all equipped with Japanese equipment. As for the French Leber, the American-made water beads, and the Austro-Hungarian Manlicia were reassigned to the divisional armaments.

The number of rifles in this way is barely enough, but the gap between light and heavy machine guns and those that make up for previous battle losses is very large. Even the three brigades, which gave priority to ensuring the expansion of the main force, were very reluctant. Moreover, there are many types of machine guns, and there are three calibers, which is also not conducive to logistics supply.

The gap in equipment even made Yang Zhen regret that he had agreed to provide a full set of Japanese-style equipment for the North Korean Independent Division, which was still in the proposal. With this batch of equipment, at least the caliber of the department can be simplified. In addition, it is possible to re-establish part of the reserve.

In addition, the quality and quantity of the products in the arsenal are steadily improving, so that by the beginning of next spring, the troops should be able to stock up on some ammunition and spare weapons. As long as he can reserve enough ammunition and materials before the outbreak of the Soviet-German war, what if he adds the weapons and ammunition captured in the battle, even if those ** people in Jiangbei cut off their blood vessels?

Although Jiangbei gave rice bowls and chopsticks, he also gave you rice and taught you how to cook. But the means of farming are not given to you. The practice of having to go out to buy if you want to eat made Yang Zhen very disdainful, but he also knew that this was the biggest benefit he could get for himself right now.

You must know that the amount of weapons and equipment and ammunition in this batch, in addition to the aircraft, must have exceeded those weapons and equipment purchased by the Guannai Nationalist Government with a loan of more than 300 million US dollars from Jiangbei after the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War. And that's not even counting the raw materials for the military industry and the ammonia production plant. Although the quality of the weapons made in Poland is not necessarily as good as that of Jiangbei, this quantity is very satisfactory to Yang Zhen.

Yang Zhen, who was in the excitement, forgot that the training of the so-called reservists in his huge production and construction corps also consumed a lot of ammunition. Whether his ammunition reserve plan, especially the Japanese-style ammunition reserve, can meet the standards of the plan in his heart depends on how the production capacity of the arsenal can rise.

Looking at Yang Zhen, whose expression was a little excited, but he didn't know where the soul tour went, the commander-in-chief frowned slightly, but then he was relieved. Knowing that Yang Zhen had so many fancy intestines in his heart, he thought that Yang Zhen rarely showed such an idiot look, and he was a little overexcited.

It is no wonder that since the September 18 Incident, he has been in the northeast for several years in a difficult guerrilla war, and almost every rifle and bullet has to go through bloody battles to obtain the commander-in-chief. More than anyone else, I once wanted to get these weapons and equipment that could only be stored in the hearts of the soldiers of the Anti-Japanese Federation.

The commander-in-chief had been thinking that if he had crossed the river several times to ask for help, even if he had obtained one-tenth of the number of these weapons, the situation of the Second Route Army might have been much better. Thinking of this, the commander-in-chief couldn't help but look at the young man in front of him, who was almost half his own size, and a trace of jealousy suddenly rose in his heart.

He risked his life back then, and crossed the river several times to ask for help, but he easily got it in his hands. Not only did he get it, but the amount was even more than the initial amount he had set when he first discussed this matter with him.

But the commander-in-chief who saw the reversal of the situation in the Xiajiang War of Resistance with his own eyes, although a trace of jealousy suddenly rose in his heart. But he also knows that there is no such thing as pie in the sky. What Yang Zhen said is not wrong, if you want people to respect you and help you, you must have benefits that others can see and touch. Otherwise, a qiē can only be delusional.

There is no savior in this world, and the so-called spirit of internationalism is illusory for national interests, and only interests are the most real. Although the commander-in-chief didn't want to admit it, he also told him in reality that if it weren't for Yang Zhen's repeated defeats of the powerful Japanese Kwantung Army, he occupied almost the entire puppet Manchurian Sanjiang Province, and changed the overall situation of Jiangbei's eastern defense line.

It was also an excellent opportunity for the Japanese army's repeated provocations and the ignition of war in Europe. Jiangbei felt that supporting the Anti-Japanese Federation could greatly reduce the military pressure on its eastern border and spare more energy to deal with the war situation in Europe. Jiangbei, I'm afraid that maybe not even a single bullet will be given. Just like they did against the United Nations.